Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distress the moral laxity of the U.S., his adopted country. He is especially concerned with the national preoccupation with sex, as evidenced by the success of Mickey Spillane's detective stories ("calculated to enthrall the most brutal sex sadist") and of Dr. Alfred Kinsey's reports on sexual behavior. As a nation, Sorokin warned this week, the U.S. is in danger of going sex-crazy...
...consuming interest in sex has so penetrated our national culture that it has been estimated we encounter some kind of sexual lure every nine minutes of our waking day," Sociologist Sorokin wrote in This Week Magazine. "Greece, in the third and second centuries B.C., 'brought sex out into the open in a manner that has yet to be equalled. We know, because there were Kinseys in those days, too, men who prided themselves on their objectivity as they calmly recorded the distressing picture of whole families getting together to indulge in promiscuous behavior. Adultery, prostitution, homosexuality and even incest...
Stop Lights & Fireplugs. It is, said Sorokin, "downright dangerous to jump to the conclusion that an act which you have committed, or commit frequently, is all right simply because you can mention a sexual-research project that proves you've got plenty of company. In this country there are large numbers of automobile drivers who have a habitual contempt for traffic laws. They speed, forget to signal, pass stop lights and obstruct fireplugs when they park. But their growing numbers do not make their crimes 'all right' . . . Sexual behavior, like any other kind, must be tested...
...Copenhagen, let the world in on two secrets hitherto kept under wraps. The Jorgensen measurements (made by Christine's own tape): height, 5 ft. 6½ in.; weight, 115 Ibs.; bust, 34 in.; waist, 25 in.; hips, 36 in. Christine's favorite man: Sexpert Dr. Alfred C. (Sexual Behavior in the Human Female) Kinsey. Said Christine: "He proved that a lot of things that we think abnormal are really very normal. Dr. Kinsey can't help me or hurt me, but he's a marvelous...
Psychiatrists hold that bullying and cries of "Pervert!" are an incitement to the deviate to prove himself, possibly in crimes of violence. And, they add, those who protest most loudly against deviations in others are the least sure of their own sexual adjustment...